Tuesday, July 15, 2014

IELTS Listening: listen for interest

As well as doing IELTS listening test practice, anything else that you listen to in English will help to improve your 'ear'. I recommend using websites like YouTube for daily listening practice: choose a topic that you find interesting, and search for videos about it.

For example, I'm interested in language learning (of course!). Here's a YouTube video that I found and watched yesterday:

If you found this video interesting, watch it a second time and note any new or useful phrases that you hear. If you didn't find it interesting, search for something different. As the speaker says at the start of the film, the key is to expose yourself to as much "comprehensible input" as possible!

I personally enjoy watching documentaries of any kind. This way I improve my 'ear', as you always say, and I also learn interesting new things about different subjects. I'm glad I found out about your website. This was about 6 months ago, and I've been following your lessons daily since then. Thank you!

Could you please explain, why the right answer is 4:30 and not 4:30 pm ? It's really strange for me because:
1) the similar wordings of Dates/Times in this column have "pm" format
2) the rule for this question says: 'No more than 2 words and/or a number' - so 4:30 pm is OK in this case